Best Drama movies that are award winners or nominees

Actors : Jason Robards, Jane Fonda, George Grizzard, James Caan,
Directors : Alan J. Pakula,

Ella Connors is a single woman who gets pressured to sell her failing cattle farm to her corrupt ex suitor, Jacob Ewing. She asks for help from her neighbor, Frank Athearn. As Ella and ...

Actors : Estelle Parsons, Joanne Woodward, Kate Harrington, James Olson,
Directors : Paul Newman,

Rachel is a 35 year old school teacher who has no man in her life and lives with her mother. When a man from the big city returns and asks her out, she begins to have to make decisions about her life and where she wants it to go.

Actors : Oskar Werner, David Janssen, Laurence Olivier, Anthony Quinn,
Directors : Michael Anderson,

Ukrainian Archbishop Kiril Lakota is set free after two decades as a political prisoner in Siberia. He is brought to Rome by Fr. David Telemond, a troubled young priest who befriends him. ...

Actors : Karl Malden, Natalie Wood, Rosalind Russell, Paul Wallace,
Directors : Mervyn LeRoy,

Based on the Broadway hit about the life and times of burlesque dancer Gypsy Rose Lee and her aggressive stage mother, Mama Rose.

Actors : Anne Bancroft, William Atherton, Roy Thinnes, George C. Scott,
Directors : Robert Wise,

A film that chronicles the events of the Hindenburg disaster in which a zeppelin burst into flames.

Actors : James Fox, Patrick O'Neal, Tom Courtenay, George Segal,
Directors : Bryan Forbes,

A fast-taking wheeler-dealer corporal in a Malaysian POW camp during WWII uses bribery and larceny to take de facto control of the camp from his senior officers.

Actors : Vernel Bagneris, Bernadette Peters, Steve Martin, Jessica Harper,
Directors : Herbert Ross,

During the Great Depression, a sheet music salesman seeks to escape his dreary life through popular music and a love affair with an innocent school teacher.

Actors : Janet Suzman, Roderic Noble, Michael Jayston, Ania Marson,
Directors : Franklin J. Schaffner,

Tsar Nicholas II, the inept monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family.

Actors : Richard Benjamin, Carrie Snodgress, Frank Langella, Lorraine Cullen,
Directors : Frank Perry,

A housewife with an abusive husband has an affair with a writer.

Actors : Vanessa Redgrave, Alan Arkin, Robert Duvall, Nicol Williamson,
Directors : Herbert Ross,

To treat his friend's cocaine induced delusions, Watson lures Sherlock Holmes to Sigmund Freud.

Actors : Sally Field, Val Avery, Harrison Ford, Henry Winkler,
Directors : Jeremy Kagan,

A Vietnam veteran suffering from post traumatic stress disorder breaks out of a VA hospital and goes on a road trip with a sympathetic traveler to find out what became of the other men in his unit.

Actors : Marcello Mastroianni, Shirley MacLaine, Jessica Tandy, Kathy Bates,
Directors : Beeban Kidron,

At her husband's funeral, Pearl (Shirley MacLaine), Jewish mother of two divorced and antagonistic daughters, meets an old Italian friend (Marcello Mastroianni) of her husband, whose advice...

Actors : Tim Dutton, Rosemary Harris, Willem Dafoe, Miranda Richardson,
Directors : Brian Gilbert,

In 1915, T.S. (Tom) Eliot and Vivienne Haigh-Wood elope, but her longstanding gynecological and emotional problems disrupt their planned honeymoon. Her father is angry because Tom's poetry ...

Actors : Dana Hill, Peter Coyote, Rip Torn, Mary Steenburgen,
Directors : Martin Ritt,

In 1930's Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings moves to Florida's backwaters to write in peace. She feels bothered by affectionate men, editor and confused neighbors, but soon she connects and writes The Yearling, a classic of American literature.

Actors : Alan Bates, Jill Clayburgh, Cliff Gorman, Michael Murphy,
Directors : Paul Mazursky,

A wealthy woman from Manhattan's Upper East Side struggles to deal with her new identity and her sexuality after her husband of 16 years leaves her for a younger woman.

Actors : Tim Choate, Robin Ellis, Wesley Addy, Lee Remick,
Directors : James Ivory,

It's the mid-nineteenth century. Adult siblings Felix Young and Eugenia Munster were born and raised in Europe and have a somewhat bohemian lifestyle reflective of their travels throughout ...

Actors : Jason Robards, Dean Stockwell, Ralph Richardson, Katharine Hepburn,
Directors : Sidney Lumet,

Over the course of one day in August 1912, the family of retired actor James Tyrone grapples with the morphine addiction of his wife Mary, the illness of their youngest son Edmund and the ...

Actors : Chris Sarandon, Anne Bancroft, Perry King, Margaux Hemingway,
Directors : Lamont Johnson,

A top fashion model seeks justice after she is brutally raped by her teenaged sister's music teacher.

Actors : Richard Burton, Alec Guinness, Peter Ustinov, Elizabeth Taylor,
Directors : Peter Glenville,

A cynical Welsh hotel owner secretly romances a diplomat's wife in Haiti under the violent reign of the despot "Papa Doc" Duvalier.

Actors : Bill McKinney, Meg Tilly, Matt Dillon, Jim Metzler,
Directors : Tim Hunter,

After their mother dies and their father leaves them, teenage brothers Tex and Mason McCormick struggle to make it on their own.